CV

Summary

Senior information technologist and technology manager with over 25 years experience in engineering and business information systems, who has successfully implemented complex, high budget projects in diverse industries.

Education/Certification

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science and Information Systems – University of South Africa

Honours Level Management qualification (ACL), Cum Laude – University of Cape Town, Graduate School of Business

Diploma in Datametrics, Cum Laude – University of South Africa

Prince2 Project Management – OGC

Technical Expertise

Business Architecture/Analysis

Database Design

Data Migration

Data Management

Data Quality/Integrity

OO Systems Analysis using UML

Data Architecture/Analysis

Data Privacy

OO Systems Design using UML

Database Modelling

BI/Data Warehousing

OO Systems Development

Application Expertise

Insurance

Banking

Document Management

Healthcare

Training Simulations

Workflow

Pension Fund Administration

Wargaming

Investment Management

Historical Records Warehouse

Retail Warehousing

Factoring

Non-Technical and Management Expertise

Line/People Management

Recruitment

Proposal Preparation

Strategy Formulation

Budget Management

Business Case Preparation

Program/Project Management

Symposium Presentations

Medical Research

Vendor Management

Contract Negotiation

Client Management

Industry Experience

Healthcare including Pharmacy

Telecommunications

Management Services

Medical Engineering

Military Engineering

Property Consulting

Financial Services

Retail/Supply Chain

Transport

Work Experience

DVT (Dynamic Visual Technologies) 2010

Contract Senior Project Manager/Data Architect

Management of a project for a client supplying healthcare solutions – locally and internationally – to both the private and public healthcare sectors

Development of a greenfields application for management of healthcare facilities (including pharmacies), from primary healthcare facilities to sophisticated tertiary hospitals

Management of a software development team of 22 people, including developers from India

Data architecture based on the HL7 Reference Information Model and taking cognizance of HIPAA and other data protection and privacy regulations

Started career as assembler programmer, programming mainly NCR mainframes

Mainly system, rather than application, software

NCR assembler (NEAT/3), FORTRAN, COBOL

Gave programming courses in both NEAT/3 and COBOL

Worked for NCR in London, Cape Town and Harare

APPENDIX OF MAIN METHODOLOGIES, LANGUAGES, TOOLS

Frameworks/Methodologies/Notations

Languages

Tools

Project Management/Systems Engineering:

Java

Project Scheduler

PMBOK

C++

MS Project

Prince 2

OpenGL

Rational Rose

MIL-STD-498 (USA Dept. of Defense)

C

Enterprise Architect

UP/ Agile / Scrum

Clipper

Sybase PowerDesigner

Architecture/Design

XML

Erwin Data Modeller

Zachman Framework for Enterprise Architecture

Pascal

MS Access

Object-Oriented Analysis and Design

PRO IV

Oracle/MS Sql Server & other RDBMS’s

UML

COBOL

Multiple SQL-based reporting tools

JAD

FORTRAN

Visio

Information Engineering

Assembler(NEAT/3 Levels I & II)

MS Excel

Structured Design

MS Powerpoint

MS Word

Problem-solving/ Conceptualization

Hoshin Kanri

Systems Thinking

Key Accomplishments

As Business Architect and Manager of the Record-keeping project (at Old Mutual Employee Benefits), created a broad-perspective data model, for pension fund administration, that was used as a blueprint and basis for thought and discussion by many constituent departments of the organization.

As Program Manager for Data Migration (at Old Mutual Employee Benefits) completed a highly complex data cleaning, migration and archiving exercise, exactly on original time and under budget.

As Project Manager for the Bankmaster Decommissioning project (at Old Mutual Bank), managed to migrate the data from, and formally decommission, the Bankmaster banking system, in just six weeks.

As Project Manager for Wargame Simulations managed a geographically dispersed, culturally diverse and contractually complex team of engineers, scientists and mathematicians. Delivered the system ahead of time and under budget. Also presented a well-received paper on training simulations for air forces at a very high-profile military symposium, which featured several international speakers, including the head of the NATO wargaming centre.

Prepared a proposal, for Anglovaal Mining Consulting Mechanical and Electrical Engineers Department, for a document management, imaging and workflow system. This proposal was successful against proposals from 9 other tenderers, including a consortium of H.P.S. and I.C.L.